This is an analysis of the poem Thrymskvadet that begins with:
Vred blev Vingthor, da han vaagned
og Hamren sin savne monne;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX X XX XXXXb XXX XXX XXbXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXX XXXX XXbXX XXXX cXXb XXBX XXX XXXX Xb XXBd XXX XaXX XXXX XXcX XXXXX XaaX AXXX XdXX AXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,2,5,3,3,5,5,4,5,4,5,4,4,4,3,4,2,4,3,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 110111 110101 111111 1101111 1111011 10111101 1111010010 10111010 1101111 11101100 11101010 101 1111111 1111111 1111001 111101101 1110111 1111111 1101101 11 1011010110 1101111 11 1011010110 11001001 11 11001011 1101010 1010110 101101111 1111001 11110111 11101101 1111110 1101111 1111110 1110110 101111 110111 11 11111111110 11101000 1010110 101101111 1011011 1101111 1110110 111111 1110111 101101 111101 1100111 101111 1110111 1100111 1010110 10110010 11101101 10111101 1111110 1111101 111111 111111 111011 10111101 1111101 111101 1111111 111101 10111111 111111 11101010 1110110 1111101 111111 111111 111011 100101101 111101 11111 1101111 111011 11100101 101101 1110111 1111111 111111 1111011 110110 1111001 111011 1110111101 1011001 1011101 11111100 1111111 11110101 111111 1111110 111111 1111101 10101111 111111 1110111 111011 1110111 11101011 1111101 1011101 1101110 111111 1110111 111011 1110111 111111 1100111 111111 1101111 1111110 11101011 11111 1110111 10011101 1110101 111110 111110 11111 1111100 1111100 1101111 1110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 158
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, freya are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , og are repeated.
The author used the same word kvad at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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